Fit for Carrie 29th April 2021 The row over who paid for the redecoration of the Downing Street flat which Boris Johnson shares with Carrie Symonds led Alistair Lexden to explain, in a letter... Articles
Primroses for the immortal Dizzy 19th April 2021 Benjamin Disraeli, first and last Earl of Beaconsfield, died on this day 140 years ago at the age of seventy-six from bronchitis contracted three weeks earlier... Articles
Strengthening the United Kingdom 13th April 2021 An article in The Times on April 12 deplored Downing Street’s failure to give adequate consideration to the interests of the devolved parliaments and... Articles
Prince Philip and Parliament 11th April 2021 The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on April 10, the day after the Duke of Edinburgh’s death. SIR – Parliament did not always treat the... Articles
Honour and dishonour 7th April 2021 A very small proportion of those who receive honours from the Queen subsequently bring disgrace upon themselves, and forfeit the distinctions that have been... Articles
A drubbing for Justin Welby 6th April 2021 One of the many sad and sorry features of Justin Welby’s time as Archbishop of Canterbury has been his failure to admit that he was wrong in condemning the... Articles
At the top of the greasy pole - Disraeli's first premiership, February to December 1868 3rd April 2021 On 25 February 1868, Mary Anne Disraeli, whose adoration of her husband knew no bounds, wrote excitedly to her friend, Lady Charlotte de Rothschild: ‘By the... Articles
Sex and politics in inter-war Britain 23rd March 2021 Henry Channon, always called Chips Channon (though no one knows why), was one of the 20th century’s greatest diarists—some say the greatest of all. A heavily... Articles
A disastrous protocol 12th March 2021 The Northern Ireland Protocol, agreed between the Government and the EU, came into force on 1 January. It keeps Northern Ireland in the EU single market for... Articles